Medieval persona

I am Otilia Simion and born in Bukarest, Rumania. My family and I are roma gypsies and moved around Europe a lot to entertain with dance, playing music, offering furtune telling. We came to southern Germany in the end of the farmer wars. One night my Family had to flee from looting mercenaries. They were hired by the margrave of Baden-Durlach, Ernst the first of his name, to fight back the farmers. Unfortunately he ran out of money, so they started to plunder and raid the villages around the area. I haven’t seen my Family since this aweful night.

I was able to find cover in a tavern basement. The owner felt sorry for me, so he took me in so I was save and to learn his traid. We got married after a year so I was save. It wasn’t a love marriage though. He was in the guild of inkeepers, so when he died because of the most recent plaque epidemic, I inherited the tavern.

I was brought up Christian orthodox but adopted my late husbands beliefs, in order to not raise any eyebrows. I am officially a Protestant now.

I still have some costumers coming to me for fortune telling, but my main occupation is running the tavern. I have two other girls and a servant helping me.

In my rare spare time, I like to sing and dance, as well as watching other Entertainers from the same origin as me.

My most precious Things are my jewlery which was past on to me by my female relatives. Our currency is the «Gulden».

Out of convenience I live in one of the rooms on the ground Level of my tavern. I only have five years left until the guild either takes over the tavern or remarries me to another guild member. I would love to stay here, but the prospect of a new unloved husband is not very tempting.
I hope one day, I as a woman can forge my own fate and be Independent.

Bur I’ll probably die because of the plaque, pundering mercenaries or because they accuse me of being a witch way before my time.


Just when I arrived in Karlsruhe I saw the inthronation ceremony of the new margrave of Baden-Durlach, Karl the 2nd. In the end we are all subordinates of the Kaiser Karl the 5th from house Habsburg. My margrave and the Kaiser aren’t from the same believe which causes a lot of tension and is very unsettling.

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